Happy Birthday: Aimee Teegarden

In 2007, Aimee Teegarden was the one who read the question, “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?” to Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant Caite Upton (Miss South Carolina Teen USA). The question became infamous when Ms. Upton botched the answer with a string of nonsensical and non-germane responses, and the resulting video became a popular Internet meme. Ms. Upton’s answer was: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh…people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and…I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help…